In Spring 2004 our research group activated at the University of Bologna a Working Group within the IAHS Decade on Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB). The proposal for the Working Groupcan be downloaded here.
The members of the working group are:
1. Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna (associate professor, main contact of the Group), Faculty of Engineering
2. Armando Brath, University of Bologna (full professor), Faculty of Engineering
3. Ezio Todini, University of Bologna (full professor), Faculty of Geology
4. Betül Saf, Pamukkale University (Assistant Professor)
5. Attilio Castellarin, University of Bologna (assistant professor), Faculty of Engineering
6. Elena Toth, University of Bologna (assistant professor), Faculty of Engineering
7. Luigia Brandimarte, UNESCO-IHE (lecturer)
8. Giuliano Di Baldassarre, UNESCO-IHE (lecturer)
A first description of the activities developed within PUB is contained in a paper which was published on the book Hydrological risk, recent advances in peak river flow modelling, prediction and real-time forecasting - Assessment of the impact of land-use and climate change, edited by Armando Brath, Alberto Montanari and Elena Toth, which was published by Bios in 2004. A similar >paper was recently published on HESS. The main activities of the Working Group can be summarised in the following points:

1) Rainfall runoff modeling for ungauged basins (see the AFFDEF paper).

2) Derivation of the flood frequency distribution via simulation studies (see the above HESS paper).

3) Uncertainty assessment in rainfall-runoff modeling (see the paper on the meta-Gaussian approach for uncertainty assessment that was published on Water Resources Research, Volume 40, 1201, doi: 10.1029/2003WR002540, 2004.

4) Estimation of the minimum environmental flow downstream water withdrawals in natual rivers (see the paper that was published on the Proceedings of the 29° Italian Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulc Works, Trento, 7-10 September 2004, edited by Bios, Vol. 3, 313-320, 2004.

5) Analysis of the spatial distribution of hillslope failures depending on the geometrical behaviours of the river network (see the paper that was published on the Geological Society of America Bullettin.

If you wish to receive additional information about the Working Group, please let me know.